History, Metahistory, and Evil: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the...

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1. Verfasser: Krawcowicz, Barbara 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
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Zusammenfassung:Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms-modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers-in which they employ historical events
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Feb 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:9781644694824
DOI:10.1515/9781644694824

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